A young man sets out to buy a carton of milk and instead experiences a whirlwind adventure through time and space - a fantasy of epic proportions.
If you enjoy Robert Asprin or Terry Pratchett's novels, you should enjoy this.

In Volume One, "The Girl and the Guardian", Shelley Arkle ended up alone in the terrible Valley of Thorns, with only a half-crazed Third-lifer, the serpent Thornfoot, to help her. Now Thornfoot seems to be her only hope. But his idea for escape looks more like suicide to her…

Conspiracy, adventure, magic, and romance abound in this first book in Risso’s The Sundered Kingdoms Trilogy.
At the center of the tumult is Connor, the unwitting harbinger to the end of an era and doomed to die before his time. Gawain, the duke’s renegade bastard son, and Bronwen, the ambitious young queen, navigate their own ways through the tempest.